“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.”
“The Obscurity of the Poet”, p. 4
Poetry and the Age (1953)
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